Aha! Why not we put our rants, i mean close loop thoughts into a new
book? --- > Rantings of Open Source Minds :)
On 12/14/10 11:15 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote:
I don't think it is rant.
I believe it is actually a close loop feedback system working
Technical people (engineers, programmers) like to talk about what they
are doing, and telling it to someone else, with the hope of getting
feedback. This feedback usually will improve and enhance the thing
that they are currently doing.
Most people don't really aware they are in a close loop system, until
they found the "Aha!" moment, and the word like, "good idea", "why I
did not think of that", etc comes out from their mouth.
Most of the time I like to hear technical people ranting about their
job or work environment, and then I will ask them, "what do you think
is the solution to that problem?" . Wait a while and you will see that
they actually have answer for most of their rant, but it was not
obvious to them because the loop is not closed :)
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Boh Yap<[email protected]> wrote:
hi Red,
good one, its a socio-psycological phenomena that is worth at least a
Masters thesis!
But I will also add one thing, its not how much you rant, but also how
eloquently you communicate your ideas, humour, wit and clarity is
important. After all, communications skills is also a important
requisite for SW development as we are often communicating complex
concepts... ;-)
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:46 AM, red1<[email protected]> wrote:
Boh aplogised for his rant earlier and this prompt me to theorise something
here. I been busy, what else, but immersing my head into OSGI code. After
about 3 weeks of code reviewing, my head really got cross-wired and
yesterday was when i maxed out. I don't even want to look at the keyboard.
Then i remembered my readings of what i call Software Developer Anti
Patterns, where coders work in waves, and not 9 to 5. It is faster to be
slower and there is this mysterious pair-programming been better. Of course,
the Open Source community tops it all, as people are motivated when there is
social talk happening at 'work'. Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits, even
wrote about letting your staff bitched about you in the open, as this is
good psychology. In short people need to rant. Especially coders. The work
is both intense and extensive, depending on how you code or rather
copy/paste.
Salespeople get stressed out too. They will F here and F there whenever they
are away from the clients. Or bosses. News people will take it out by
smoking pot. Almost all the lady reporters are smokers. But for coders, they
are harmless to the ozone layer. But they will just rant and rant. In fact,
i will add this to the items i will look out for in the next FOSS candidate
i find. How well do you rant? Before i forget i need to apply this symbol
here - :)<--- anti smoking device.
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